TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(per Press Association.)

CASUALTIES. AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. Corporal Sidney Gibson, late Now Zealand Field Artillery, jumped from the Grafton Bridge this morning, and Avas found ivith his neck broken beside a gravestone in the cemetery. He was working at Rotorua as a labourer until a. fortnight ago. Last night be appeared normal. This morning ie said to an acquaintance, “For God’s sake get a policeman to arrest me. I am going mad.” He dashed down the street and evidently Avent direct to the Grafton Bridge. He was twenty-iuno years of age. It is believed he had ft mother in Sydney. N.Z. MINERS FEDERATION. WELLINGTON, September 21. The Exocuti\ r e of the NeAV Zealand Miners’ Federation sat in Wellington to-day. . It met to consider what action should be taken in connection with the Waikato coalminers strike. Kir Arbuokle, Secretary of the Federation informed a reporter later that no decision of the Executive Avas yet 'available for publication. i

MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT. WANGANUI, Sept. 21. The folloAving resolution Avas carried at a meeting of Die Wanganui Executive of the Protestant Political Association: “This meeting endorses the action of the Dominion Executive in bringing before Parliament the iniquitous Avork of the Ne Temere Degree in this Dominion, and it compliments the Rev Howard Elliott on the able manner in Avhicli be lias presented our case to the Committee, and assure the Prime Minister that in upholding the validity of marriage according to civil IaAV, and protecting the issue of such marriage from the stigma of illegitimacy, as also in dealing with those recalcitrant individuals who threatened to by the proposed IaAV, be av ill have behind him not only the huge membership of the P.P.A. but the whole Protestant country.”